ICTM IrelandICTM Ireland2017-12-05T14:24:18Zhttp://www.ictm.ie/?feed=atomWordPressadminhttp://www.ictm.ie/?p=22622017-10-19T13:09:33Z2017-10-19T13:09:33ZThe current edition of Speis is available for download here
]]>0adminhttp://www.ictm.ie/?p=22562017-12-05T14:21:53Z2017-09-22T13:15:07ZEthnomusicology Ireland, the online journal for ICTM Ireland, solicits articles for publication in its sixth (2018) edition. The journal, which employs a thorough peer review process, has just announced a new editorial board consisting of Jaime Jones (editor), Aileen Dillane (deputy editor), Méabh Ní Fhuartháin (reviews editor), and John Millar (technical editor).

Reflecting the range and mix of academic interests of ICTM Ireland’s membership,Ethnomusicology Irelandwelcomes articles considering both regional and international themes and from all relevant disciplines. The journal is now also open to reviews of those books, conferences, websites, sound and visual recordings that would be of interest to our readership.

Articles are typically between 5 and 7k words in length, and we particularly welcome those that are augmented by short video and audio examples, photographs and other illustrations. Ethnomusicology Ireland is published once a year under the auspices of ICTM Ireland. Membership is not a prerequisite for publication.

Our next edition is scheduled for completion in November 2018. Articles that are not reviewed and publication-ready by October, or for othereditorial reasons, may be considered for inclusion in the following edition.

The deadline for 200 word abstracts is 31st December 2017; completed articles must be received by 1st July 2018. Please visit the ICTM Ireland website to view past issues and for further submission details:

János Sipos is senior research fellow of the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.

From 1987 he has been spending some 100 months in areas inhabited by different Turkic people and collected more then 10.000 songs among Turkic-speaking people and published several books and articles. His main interests are ethnomusicology, comparative musicology and Turkic people,

]]>0adminhttp://www.ictm.ie/?p=22342017-08-24T11:56:02Z2017-08-24T11:56:02ZKaterina García is a Hispanist, with special interest in Judeo-Spanish linguistics, literature and culture. She lectures in the Department of Hispanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin. In addition, she is an active singer, and performs regularly with musicians and bands across musical genres both in Ireland and the Czech Republic. Her latest released album, Kon Sira: Songs from the Sephardic Tradition (Good Day Records, 2013), features a selection of traditional Sephardic song material co-arranged by fellow Folk, Bluegrass and Jazz musicians.
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Éamonn Costello is an Irish traditional musician and native Irish speaker from the Conamara Gaeltacht (Irish speaking district) in Co. Galway. His PhD, awarded in 2016 by the University of Limerick, is concerned with the relationship between the Oireachtas na Gaeilge festival and vernacular Irish language song; it is titled 'Sean-nós singing and Oireachtas na Gaeilge: Identity, Romantic Nationalism, and the Agency of the Gaeltacht Community Nexus'. He received an MA in Ethnomusicology in 2008 from UCC, and a BA in Irish Music and Dance from the University of Limerick in 2007. Éamonn lectured on Irish traditional music, ethnomusicology, and world music at the Irish World Academy from 2010 to 2015, and is currently working as an Irish language teacher in the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Limerick.

Éamonn has published reviews in academic journals such as Ethnomusicology: Journal of the society for Ethnomusicology, and the World of Music (new series). As a musician, Éamonn has collaborated widely with other musicians and groups; in 2010, along with Limerick fiddler, Cathal Clohessy, he released a duet album of Irish traditional music, Bosca Ceoil and Fiddle, which has been lauded by critics both nationally and internationally.

Dr Federico Spinetti is professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Cologne, Germany. His main research interests include music and politics, music and memory, auditory cultures and the built environment. His research to date has addressed the political economy of music in post-Soviet Central Asia, the music-architecture nexus in Iran and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and historic musical relations across the Mediterranean. He is currently undertaking research into musical memorializations of the WWII antifascist resistance in contemporary Italy. An active filmmaker, he has directed several documentaries, including Zurkhaneh – The House of Strength: Music and Martial Arts of Iran (2011) and The Enemy – A Partisan Hymnbook (2015).

]]>0adminhttp://www.ictm.ie/?p=21922017-07-17T11:31:11Z2017-07-17T09:25:16ZMarcello Sorce Keller, originally a pop music arranger who later repented and became a music scholar, is the author of What Makes Music European (Scarecrow 2012) and, with Linda Barwick, of Italy in Australia's Musical Landscapes (Lyrebrd 2012).
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Ciarán Ryan is based in the mid-west of Ireland. He was awarded his PhD from

Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick in 2015 for his research on

music fanzines from Ireland. Ciarán has lectured at Mary Immaculate College,

Michalis Poupazis is a Part-time Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, the MA Ethnomusicology Programme Coordinator, and an Assistant Examiner at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. He completed his PhD at UCC, under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan Stock. His doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Extending our senses: Music, nostalgia, space, artefact and the Mediterranean imaginary among the Greek- and Turkish-speaking Cypriot diaspora in Birmingham (UK)’ (https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/3997), explores Mediterranean cultures and the utterance of their cultural resources, focusing on Greek- and Turkish-speaking Cypriots in native and diasporic settings. Correspondence to: Dr. Michalis Poupazis, Department of Music and Theatre, University College Cork, 136 Sunday's Well Rd, Sunday's Well, Cork, Ireland. Email: michalis.poupazis@ucc.ie